Robert L. Morris

1410 S. McNeely Road 

Scottsburg, IN.  47170

(541) 561-0207

Ohiman1953@yahoo.com

 

Career Recap

-          15 years Fiber to the Node and fiber to the Home

-          20 years lead OSP Engineer

-          5 years OSP Supervisor

-          30 years OSP Engineering for copper based services including DSL and Special Circuit designs

-          30 years initiating, submitting and obtaining permits from government and Railroad agencies

-          20 years as a Strategic Planner (2 year and 5 year plans)

-          15 years doing quality reviews for OSP Engineering and Construction

-          2 years Project management deploying GigE service to cell sites in 14 states

-          15 years ISP  and Transmission Engineering for GigE backhaul

 

History

 

Oct 2015 – Present Expert FTTP OSP/ISP Planner/Engineer – Semi-retired, actively seeking an assignment

 

Oct 2014 to Oct 2015– Senior FTTP OSP Engineer, Google FTTH project

Expert in all duties that require OSP Planning, Engineering, Construction and quality reviews.  Guide and train the MRE, Fielding, Multi-Dwelling Unit Designers and State, Cities and Railroad permit teams.  An expert user of the 3GIS program used by Google.  Implement engineering changes when field locates conflict with the proposed construction plans.  Used software tools including GIS, 3GIS and Arc GIS, Outlook, Excel and Word.

 

Dec 2010 to Oct 2014 – Senior OSP Engineer and Project Manager, Frontier Telecommunications

Plan, engineer and deploy fiber based DSL facilities within the State of West Virginia (for a 2 year period).  Monitored DSL usage at the device level and at the Central Office level.  Also handle all project management to deploy GigE service to all ATT cell sites for Frontier’s FTTC projects in all 14 Frontier territories.  Achieved a 95 percent due date met.  Also handles ATT’s GigE services to all of the State Farm Insurance locations within the Frontier territory.  Achieved a very high customer satisfaction rating from ATT.

 

Feb 2006 to Dec 2010 – Private FTTx and Telecom Consultant.  Worked with Canada’s LEDCOR LTS Engineering division to deploy FTTx (DSL) in small Oregon cities as the lead planner and OSP Engineer.  Did FTTH in Coquille, Myrtle Point and Reedsport, OR 

 

Mar 2005 to Feb 2006 – Area Manager. FTTP, Henkels and McCoy, Aliquippa, PA.

The Area Manager for a local FTTH team of 15 outside fielders, Designers and CAD drafters in the Pittsburgh, PA area to implement fiber optic placements within the Western PA region for Verizon.  Work directly with Verizon engineers and Verizon construction (customer).  Attain high level of quality due to personal Quality Review techniques.  Also supervised 2 remotes engineering and design offices from Pittsburgh with one office in Oxford Mass and the other in Lewisville, TX.  The majority of my time was spent as Project Manager and training fielder, designers and drafters.

 

 

 

Oct 2004 to Mar 2005 – FTTP Planner./Lead Designer, Bechtel Engineering, Frederick, MD.

Supervised a 9 person team of Designers and drafters for Verizon through Bechtel Telecommunications for the Dormont, PA exchange area in Pittsburgh Pa.  Also perform network planning for new routes and design both the F1 and F2 fiber projects.  Use both Bechtel and Verizon system tools to extract address information from LEIS reports, maintain Verizon web tracker information and interface with the local Verizon engineer co-ordinator and the Verizon Area FTTP Manager. 

Direct and  co-ordinate with field walkdown teams to gather relative information for designer use.  Also work with CAD teams to ensure Verizon workprint standards are followed.

 

Nov 2003 to Oct 2004 – Retired from GTE/Verizon due to corporate early retirement offer.

 

May 1999 to Nov 2003 – Verizon, Central Office Construction and Operations Supervisor – Direct supervision of 25 IBEW technicians in the Southern Indiana area and up to 25 CWA COEI construction techs while in Lexington, KY.  During this 5 year period, my team absentee rate never exceeded ½ of a percent and the team experienced only 2 minor vehicle accidents.  Met all circuit and equipment installation timeframes ranging from minor DS1 to major switch, framework and battery installations.

I held the first or second rating among 39 other supervisors in a 7 state area for a consistent 18 month period with 0 accidents.  I had the highest moral within my work groups.  Primary responsibilities were maintaining all base units, remote switching units, DLC’s and the installation of circuits from DS0 to OC3’s.  Planned, Designed and Built fiber cable and equipment from central office location all the way to customers frames and fiber terminal equipment to include BICS designs and multi-floor risers for Indianapolis, Cincinatti, Seatle, Overland Park and Cleveland.

 

Apr 1982 to May 1999 – GTE/Verizon, Outside Plant Planner and Senior Engineer

Portsmouth, OH – Planner-Access Design and Senior Engineer for CAF projects for the Southern Ohio area consisting of fiber and copper cable projects and the placement and engineering of fiber driven pair gains including Marconi, AFC, Alcatel, Reltec and re-use of Siemans equipment.  Project managed various projects from very minor to major multi-million dollars.  Handled the review of all engineered projects prior to being released.  Also had the responsibility to train other Network Planners within the region on the uses of ICGS and ICAPS.  This position also oversaw all outside Plant Construction crews from including buried cables, aerial plant and underground installations. 

Dallas, TX. OSP Engineering Support, Headed a national teams of peers to develop and implement standard business processes and the application of new technologies such as HDSL and ADSL.  One of my duties during my tenure was that of the ethics compliance officer in the GTE World HQ location in Dallas, TX.  Also, I had to support the development of ICGS.

Redland, Perris, Pomona and Palm Springs, CA – Performed the duties of both an OSP Engineer and that of the area CAF Planner.  Process permits with government agencies, obtained required rights-of-way documents, CLLI assignments and performed the requirements of a field engineer.  Worked with all of Verizon/GTE systems.

 

Education

 

June 1981 - Valley College, Yucaipa, CA.  Associates of Arts in Business Administration.

 

Jan 1978 – Numerous classes in the area of Mechanical Engineering

 

June 1971 – Beaver High School, Beaver, PA.

 

Skills

 

High success rate on ALL FTTX projects since 2004.  Can quickly and quietly identify problems and roadblocks and feel comfortable to implement corrective actions.  Have the ability to quickly recognize process flows and ways to improve.  Stress work safety and habits, which have led to high quality and team performance.  Can effectively merge company goals with employee goals to achieve success for the company and the employee.  Can supervise operational and maintenance teams. 

 

 

 

Computer Skills

 

Am fluent with Xcel, ArcGIS, Metasolve, multiple CAD programs, MSWord and MS Outlook.  Have worked with many of the new fiber technologies being used in the field today.

 

Traits

 

Strong work Ethic which support the goals of the company and the employee; rely on teamwork and stressing common goals.  Have always been flexible with others and other teams in order to meet the goals of the company. 

 

References

 

Steve Likness – Google Engineering, Charlotte, NC   804 955 8190

John Schmitz - Alliant Energy (Wisconsin Power and Light), Telecom Engineer  (608) 458-0459

Douglas Good – Frontier Telecom, Sr OSP Engineer, Parkersburg, WV 304 428-8431